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June 2, 2021
As many of us prepare to graduate this June, doctor Paul Farmer's story in “Mountains Beyond Mountains” invites us to consider what we can do with the years that lie ahead.
By Eric Tang
Jan. 28, 2021
The vaccine, if successful, could be stored at less extreme temperatures than mRNA vaccines currently in use, creating opportunities for distribution in low-resourced settings.
April 25, 2021
Advancements in biology like Rubins' research will be crucial for the success of NASA’s Artemis exploration program, which could possibly result in Rubins being the first woman to walk on the moon as soon as 2024.
By Kristel Tjandra and Matthew Turk
Feb. 12, 2020
Distrust and misinformation still surround the Ebola epidemic. Due to the disease's highly infectious nature, patients feel isolated and dehumanized.
July 13, 2020
Stanford Medicine’s Dean Lloyd Minor hosted a virtual fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, leading infectious disease expert and prominent member of the White House's COVID-19 task force. Despite a grim evaluation of the pandemic’s spread, Fauci expressed cautious optimism for a vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021.
By Leanna Sun
April 4, 2021
Few people expect a college junior to prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, but we should expect better from our institutions. Now that case counts and hospitalizations are decreasing and vaccines are increasingly available, we should ask why past preparedness measures were not effective and what must be done to avoid repeating these mistakes in the future.
Jan. 27, 2021
Stanford clinical research manager Sumana Shashidhar discusses her foray into biomedical research and the COVID-19 vaccine research she is conducting.
By Ihita Ghosh
Feb. 3, 2021
Dr. Yasmin joins us this time to talk about her latest book, “Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall For Them.”
May 31, 2020
Amid COVID-19, Stanford course HUMBIO 114: “Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease” has seen an abundance of students suddenly take interest; enrollment has risen from 23 students in spring 2019 to 64 students this spring, according to ExploreCourses.
April 29, 2020
Experts’ advice going unheeded. A president deliberately misleading a nation. A dangerous lack of preparation revealing an apparent inability to learn from the past. A system failing to protect the most vulnerable from a foreseen crisis. Is this COVID-19? Perhaps. Is this climate change? Just as likely.
By Caroline Kim
April 5, 2020
Stanford researchers across disciplines and departments have launched research projects to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on daily life with a wide range of approaches.
By Yash Pershad
Nov. 11, 2019
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, 68% of Americans say that fake news greatly impacts their confidence in government institutions, and 79% of Americans believe something should be done to combat the barrage of misinformation.
April 26, 2018
I tried my hardest to talk, too loudly and too often — only to be told by a friend much later that I “didn’t open my mouth."
By Fangzhou Liu
April 20, 2018
The scholarship, awarded in honor of former U.S. President Harry Truman, recognizes students across the country who plan to pursue careers in public service. It awards them $30,000 to put towards graduate education. Andraka was one of fifty-nine Truman Scholars who were selected from a pool of more than 750 students nominated by their institutions.
By Mini Racker
March 2, 2018
On Thursday evening, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power addressed international diplomacy during Donald Trump’s presidency in her second Tanner Lecture on Human Values. In the talk, Power said that America’s global standing has fallen dramatically under Trump. Power described a new model of diplomacy to tackle what she defined as unique 21st century challenges.
Oct. 3, 2016
Applications opened this month for researchers at Stanford and two other local universities to join the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a new interdisciplinary biomedical research initiative founded with a $600 million investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.
April 15, 2016
Stanford scientists have relaunched research on a previously shelved category of drugs, known as broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, in the hope that it will reveal information about new strategies to fight both difficult-to-combat viruses such as dengue and ebola, along with cancer.
This research, published in Nature Chemical Biology, was headed by the two senior authors of the paper, assistant professor of genetics Michael Bassik and professor of chemistry Chaitan Khosla.
By Aulden Foltz
